Good risk governance isn’t just about avoiding pitfalls - it’s about building resilience and seizing opportunity. The Risk Coalition’s latest guidance, Raising Your Game, offers timely, practical insights for boards and their committees to strengthen oversight and risk management across all sectors.
As organisations grapple with an evolving risk landscape and increased regulatory expectations - particularly the revised UK Corporate Governance Code - the need for clear, actionable risk guidance has never been greater. That’s where Raising Your Game comes in.
The 2025 cross-sector guidance is tailored for boards and their committees with consolidated responsibility for risk - whether that’s a dedicated risk committee or a combined audit and risk committee. It builds on the well-established three lines model and offers a roadmap to help organisations better define, assess, and enhance their risk governance structures.
The guidance encourages a holistic, principles-based approach that can be applied in organisations of any size or sector. It aims to establish a shared understanding of the role and purpose of board risk committees and risk functions, while also serving as a practical benchmark for improving performance and oversight.
Raising Your Game is the Risk Coalition’s third major publication, following the 2019 release of Raising the Bar, focused on financial services, and the 2021 publication The Extra G – ESG², exploring geopolitical risk and its intersection with ESG.
The Coalition has engaged widely across industry, academia, and regulation to ensure this new guidance is both relevant and rigorous. If your organisation is looking to raise its game in risk oversight, this publication is essential reading.
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About the Risk Coalition:
Formed in 2018, the Risk Coalition is a network of not-for-profit professional bodies and membership organisations dedicated to raising the standards of risk governance. Their mission is to provide coherent, principles-based good practice guidance for board risk committees and risk functions across all sectors.